If you are not sure, proceed and see what happens -)Ģ) Sorting out the "Bootability" of your USB-DriveĬonnect your USB drive to your computer, directly, without a Hub. Usually, if its an option in your BIOS boot sequence menu, the answer to this is yes. I am also covering a few pitfalls that happened to me, in hope they will save you a bit of time.ġ) Does your computer support booting from USB? The resulting ISO image is burnt back onto a CD media, and can then directly be used to install Windows on your USB drive. We will dump the contents of your original Windows XP CD, extract a few files from the Image using ISO modification software, edit the files, and put the modified versions back on the ISO. A CD-burning software that can handle ISO files.A registered version of WinISO (or any other software that allows direct editing of ISO files).An original Windows XP CD (tested only against SP1 so far, but reported to work on other versions).A USB2-compliant Hard disk drive (or a big USB2 stick, see remarks below).
An existing Windows install for carrying out the steps in this tutorial.Then close the command prompt and type the new password to the administrator login. Then you will receive a message “The command has completed successfully”. On below you can see, I have Administrator, Guest and krbtgt profiles And type net user Administrator ************ ( here is my new password) Once the machine has successfully rebooted it will take you to the authentication windows, here just click Window + U to open the command prompt and Just type net user, this command will help you to identify who are all having the profile on this system So far we have copied the utiman.exe file to the command prompt and rebooted the system, keep in mind we haven’t changed the existing operating system and should not switch off the machine at any cost, if the machine is physically switched off, you need to follow the same step which was mentioned above
Then close the command prompt and click continue option to reboot the machine